What did you do TO your Cruze today?

Cruzen18 said:

Gave her a good soapy bath. Tomorrow comes the ceramic coat.

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What kind ceramic coat ? I thought about doing that to mine.

-loki- said:

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Fresh wash and ceramic coating with turtle wax products. Didnt coat the hood as I'm vinyl wrapping it this week.

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Wow she is really shining. Looks good

Diamond193 said:

What kind ceramic coat ? I thought about doing that to mine.

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There are a few out there, but I use Hydrosilex. They offer a multi-stage application to start. Rewind, to smooth the surface and clean away all waxes and impurities, then a Recharge to coat/finish. Easy application and glass smooth finish/shine. Spray/wipe on, wipe off.

Turtle Wax ceramic wash with silver bottle with green label. Follow the directions and do NOT let it dry before rinsing!

Turtle Wax ceramic coating silver bottle with green label.

guuyuk said:

I'm finally getting around to getting various interior parts swapped out. I painted/clear coated these first; will be getting to the steering wheel once find a breaker bar to swap the original with the Camaro wheel I bought a while back.

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As long as you have the correct Torx bit, you may not need a breaker. A decent 1/2" ratchet could work. I think it is a T50, the largest of a set I bought from Harbor Freight, but since it was not labeled correctly, I am not positive.

I removed my stick-on vent visors because they looked stupid with the full chrome surround on the Premier. Got the in-channel ones instead. Those are junk - front's are OK but the rears need to be pushed out to close the window EVERY SINGLE TIME. Just going to remove them completely. What a waste 😒

Installed the moog stabilizer end links yesterday and today went and got a tracking/alignment by a backyard mechanic. He had a lift and the equipment in his garage, pretty cool setup... anyways he let me get under the car and check out for any leaks when on the lift etc.. pretty cool guy.

After the alignment he wanted to take the car for a ride to check the alignment.. I'm running a 22.5 psi bnr tune and decided not to tell him, but I did ask to ride along and he agreed.. he lives on a grade and sure enough he turns right heading up the grade.. he gave it moderate pedal... enough to make everything "kick in" and he immediately let's off the throttle and says "this car is fast isn't it? I wasn't expecting that, It was pulling to the right.. I felt the torque pull" it was great..

Then we hung out for the next hour sharing stories lol. Guy was an old timer, but use to have fun with muscle cars. Good day

Thebigzeus said:

Painted the heat shield with flat black grill paint. Also did the battery holder deal as well in Ac Delco matching. Had it left over. View attachment 287108

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I should paint my heat shield to its rusting. Thanks for the idea

Gave the transmission a final flogging over the weekend while hauling the motorcycle back to Arkansas. Today, I took it in to have the fluid changed and get it's 90,000 mile check. Later, I swapped out the cabin air filter. Still have to rotate the tires this weekend.

WillL84 said:

I removed my stick-on vent visors because they looked stupid with the full chrome surround on the Premier. Got the in-channel ones instead. Those are junk - front's are OK but the rears need to be pushed out to close the window EVERY SINGLE TIME. Just going to remove them completely. What a waste 😒

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Do you have before and after pics by chance?

Thebigzeus said:

Painted the heat shield with flat black grill paint. Also did the battery holder deal as well in Ac Delco matching. Had it left over.

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Looks good. I like this idea. Thanks for that.

Was feeling motivated today, so I got the tires rotated. Mostly went well except the sensors refused to activate. I'll try to do a relearn again sometime after taking a drive, when the sensors are already awake. My TPMS tool may need a new battery too.

WillL84 said:

No pics of the in channel ones because I had them on for like a week. These were the stick on ones. If the premier didn't have the full chrome window surround they would have looked fine. I hated how they broke up the chrome though. Need to find someone local with an LS with all black trim who wants to trade 🤣

I looked at buying all the black trim parts but it's like $400-$500. Probably going to plastidip all of the chrome (grille as well) but then the stick on ones would probably just peel the dip off 😑 I'll just leave them off.i don't smoke or anything so I don't really need them, just like the way they look.

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I see the issue. You may want to consider powder coating the trim as an alternative to plasti-dip. Costs more, but looks way better and lasts longer too. I would also look into "chrome" visors as an alternative.

Blasirl said:

I see the issue. You may want to consider powder coating the trim as an alternative to plasti-dip. Costs more, but looks way better and lasts longer too. I would also look into "chrome" visors as an alternative.

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The usa it's too get rid of the chrome, hence the paint lol. I could powder coat the top parts but the rest are plastic so I'd have to paint or dip them then they wouldn't match. Probably best off to just paint all of the parts